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10 best books like Silver Brumbies of the South (Elyne Mitchell): Blinky Bill, Green Grass of Wyoming, Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer: A Golden Treasury of Classic Treats, Fox's Feud, The Fox Busters, A Dog So Small, Kentucky Thriller, No Castanets at the Wells, The Chalet School in Exile, This Is Not A Book

Blinky Bill
AuthorDorothy Wall
Blinky Bill, the mischievous anthropomorphic koala, is well known around the world through the TV cartoon and movies, but the book version is a little darker. He runs away from home several times and constantly disobeys his mother, who of course beats him when she catches him - this would have been a normal...
Green Grass of Wyoming
AuthorMary O'Hara
ISBN1405210028
There is something all encompassing about that moment when somebody discovers that they can love; that they can truly, madly and wholly love somebody or something. It becomes the everything that they are, the everything that they do. It is the air, the earth, the word, the whisper. Everything is about...
Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer: A Golden Treasury of Classic Treats
AuthorJane Brocket
ISBN0340960892
Jane Brocket's Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer is a simply and also lavishly, and with sly humour conceptualised marvellous and scrumptious combination of children's books and the recipes of some of the delicious foods and drinks described in them (mostly British, but other countries are also featured,...
Fox's Feud
AuthorColin Dann
ISBN0091494001
The book begins with the birth of Vixen's four cubs: Bold, Friendly, Charmer and Dreamer and follows their early lives as they are supported and protected by all the remaining Animals of Farthing Wood. They grow gradually more independent as the story progresses.

Several meetings of the Farthing...
The Fox Busters
AuthorDick King-Smith
ISBN0140311750
Flightless, helpless and often, frankly, more than a little silly, chickens are no match for the cunning, merciless foxes stalking their coop. Or are they? Thanks to a careless farmer and generations of determined foxes, the chickens on Foxearth Farm have evolved into quick-witted, long-legged,...
A Dog So Small
AuthorPhilippa Pearce
ISBN0140302069
Philippa Pearce’s poignant story of a young boy who longs for a pet dog.

Young Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He’s picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library—and he just knows he’s going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but...
Kentucky Thriller
AuthorLauren St. John
ISBN1444000225
The third thrilling mystery and adventure novel from the Blue Peter award-winning author of DEAD MAN'S COVE

Ace detective Laura Marlin's two greatest loves in life are detective novels and animals, so she is ecstatic when her uncle agrees to let her keep a horse after they rescue it, crazed...
No Castanets at the Wells
AuthorLorna Hill
ISBN0330338714
Fans of Sebastian and Veronica (see A Dream of Sadler's Wells and Veronica at Sadler's Wells) will love this story about Caroline, Veronica's loyal younger cousin. Back in Northumberland, Caroline has been working on her dancing, hoping to emulate Veronica's success. In the meantime, she has also...
The Chalet School in Exile
AuthorElinor M. Brent-Dyer
ISBN0006901719
When Madge Bettany decides to start a school in the Austrian Alps, little does she realize how such a small idea will so completely change her life.

Now, in this classic series of books, first published in the 1920s, join the Chalet School's first pupil, Joey Bettany, as she forges strong bonds...
This Is Not A Book
AuthorJean Jullien
ISBN0714871125
A playfully deceptive format that encourages young readers to see things differently. Selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 2016, Picture Books category

This is not a book - it's a laptop, a pair of hands to clap, a toolbox! Each spread of this book is actually something else...
The Jamie Drake Equation
AuthorChristopher Edge
Jamie’s dad is an astronaut. This is a good thing – because how cool is that? And a bad thing – because he’s going to be orbiting the Earth for several months and Jamie already misses him badly. Doing his homework at the observation lab one night, Jamie inadvertently picks up a weird signal on his...
The Quicksand Pony
AuthorAlison Lester
ISBN1863739319
'Biddy, I'm sorry, we're going to have to leave her.'
'What?' Biddy struggled out of the quicksand. 'You can't leave her! The tide's coming in. She'll drown!'

But the pony is trapped and Biddy is forced to go on without her. The next day the only signs of Bella area hoofprints in the sand...with...
Wild Animals of the North
AuthorDieter Braun
ISBN1909263966
The first in a series of illustrated books covering animals of the world, North: Animals of the Wild features Dieter Braun’s beautiful drawings of northern animals accompanied by fun facts and clever descriptions that children will love!

From the polar bears of the Arctic to the North American...
Penny Pollard's Diary
AuthorRobin Klein
ISBN0195546490
The original and the best! And how fabulous was old Mrs. Bettany? I recall watching Penny Pollard on the ABC as much as reading her, too - can't recall if they were episodes on Kaboodle, or a series all of its own.

(Aha! Google to the rescue, as usual!)

Re-read May 2012 and I swear, I read...
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